The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-02-25
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIvINE's SUN
DAY SERMON.


TEXT: He shall bride the spoil Nth the
stroRg.n-Isaiah lii, IL
My family, who saw 1t with their
own eyes year before last, tell me
that IN the Coliseum at Rome, where
prosecutors use TO let out the half-staryed
lions TO cat up Christians, there Is now
planted the figure Of a eros. And rejoice
to know that the UPRIGHT piece OF wood
hailed u transverse piece has become the
symbol not more of suffering than Of vic
tory. 1t Is OF Christ the C0ndueror that my
text speaks As a kingly warrior, having
subdued an empire, might divide the palaces.
and mansions, and cities, and valleys. and
mountains among his officers. 50 Christ is
going TO divide M all the earth. aud all the
heavens, among his people, and you and
VIII have 10 take our share if we are strong
IN faith and strong in our Christian loyalty,
for my text declares il: He shall divide the
spoil with the strong"
The cap ture of this round planet for Christ
Is not so much OF a Job as You might imagine,
when the church takes OF its coat an rolls
up its sleeves for the work, a it will There
are sixteen hundred millions of people now
in the world, and four hundred and fifty mil
lions are Christians Subtra.t four hundred
and fifty millions who are Christians from
the sixteen hundred millions, aud there are
eleven hundred aud fifty millions left Di-
vide the eleven hundred and fifty millions
who are not Christians by the four hundred
and fifty mi lions who are,Christians and you
will find that we shall have 10 average less
than three souls each brought By US into the
kingdom Of God to have the whole world re-
deemed. Certainly with the chur, b rising
up to its full duty no Christian viii be willing
u bring less than three souls into the king
dom # God. | hope and praT, Almighty
God, that may bring ten thousand. ! know
evangelists who have already brought s., 600
each for the kingdom Of God There
are 100000 people whoie one and only
and absorbing business in the world
is TO save souls When YOU take
these things into consideration and that
the Christian will have to average the bring
ing of only three souls each into the Kingdom
Of our Lord, all impossibility vanishes from
this olnnipoteut crusade Why, l know
Sabbath-s- hool teacher who ha for many
years leeu engaged in training the young,
and she has had different cia ses, and they
averaged to a class, and they We're all con-
yertei, and . times are -, as near as
| can calculate So that she brought her
3 into the Kingdom Of God and had - to
spare. My grandmother prayed her chill
dfen into the Kingdom OF Christ AMI
hes grand hildren, and | hope all her
great grandchildren, for God remembers
PRAYER seventy-fve years old Is though il
were only a minute old, and so she brought
her three into tho Kingdom of God and had
that, through the telephone AMI the tele-
graph this whole world within Few years
will be brought withia compass in ten min
utes. Beside that, omnipotence, omnipresence
and oDiniscience are presiding in this matter
OF the worlds be termen', aud that takes
the question of the worlds salvation out
of the impossibilities into the possibilities,
and then out OF the possibilities into the
probabilities, and then out Of the probabili-
ties into the certainties, The Building Of the
Union Pa ific Railroad from ocean 70 o can
was greater undertaking than the girdling
of the earth with ths Gospel, for the one en-
terIri-e depended upon the human arm while
the other depends upon Almightin s.
Do really mean all the earth VIII surren-
der to Christi Yes How about III unin-
viting portionsi VIII Greenland b. evan
gelizedi The possibility is that after few
mo; ed hundred brave lives are dashed out
among the icebergs, tha. great refrigerator,
the Polar region, will be given ~ t. the wal
rus and bear, aud that the inhabitaati will
come Gown by invitation into tolerahle eli
mates. or those climates may soften, and, as
it has been positively demonstrated that the
Arctic region was cnce a blooming garden
and a fruitful field, those regions may change
climate and again be blooming garden and
a fruitful field. It is proved beyond contro-
versy by German and American scientists
that the Arctic regions were tie first portions
of this wori inhabitablo; the world hot
beyond human endurance, those regions
were of course the first 10 be co /
enough for human foot and human
lung 1t was positively proved that the Arc
tic region was a tropical climate. Professor
Heer, of Zurich. says the remains OF flowers
have been found in the Arctic, showing it
was like Mexico for climate, ami it IS found
that the Arctic was the mother region from
which all the flowers descended, Professor
Wallace rays the remains OF all STYLES of ami
mall nuaTH
those animals that can live ,nly in warm
climates Now, that Arctic region which
has cen demonstrated by fora, aud fauna,
and geologi al argument to have been as full
OF vegetation and life as our Florida, may be
turned hack to its original bloom and glory,
or 1t will be shut up as a museum OF rystnls
Tor curiosity seekers once In while to visit
But Arctic aud Antarctic in some shape will
belong to the Re1eemer's realm
What about other unpTo luciive or repul-
sive regions All the dessr 5 will be irri-
goted, the waters viii be forced up to the
great American desert between haTe and the
Pacific by machinery now known or vet TO
lie invented, and, as Greas Salt AXE City
has no rain and could not raise an apple or
bushel of wheat in hundred years without
artificial help, but is now through such meaus
one great garden, so all the unproductive
Tarts of all the con inents will be turned into
harvest fields ani o-cha-dS A half do-sn
De Lesssps will furnish tne world with all
the canals needed, and will ch, me course
OF rivers and open new lakeS' ~. great
Sahara Deser5 will b. c. l. rms
with an astounding yield 6t>aut tlS9 the
re. The marsh viii lie dra 81 its
waters aud cured OF its malaria a aaw the
other day wha. was for many Yeas called
the British Swamp Of Ohio, its chef crop
chills and fevers, but now, by the til.s put in
to the ground tocarry of the surplus moisture
=
regions The God who wastes nothing, 1
think, means that this world, from pole to
pole, has to come 10 perfection of foliage
and fruitage For that reason he keeps Us
running through SPACE, though 50 many fires
are blazing down in its timbsrs and so many
mock terrors have Threatened to dash it to
pieces. As soon as the earth Is completed
Christ will divide it up among the cool.
The reason he does not divide it now IS be-
cause it is mt done. A kini father VIII not
divide the apple among his children until the
appls is ripe. Ia fulhllnent o. the New
TeStnament promise: The meek shall in
herlt the earth and the promise Of the Old
Testament; He shall divide the spoils With
the strong. the worl will be n2portioned to
those worthy to possess it
IL IS not 50 now. In this country. carahle
OF holding. feeding. clothing, and shelterins
twelve hundred million people and where
we have only sixty million Inhabitants we
nave Two iulllOns VINO cannot get honest
work, and with their fanili an aggrega-
ton of i've millions that are on the verge OF |
starvation. Something wrong, most certain
ly. In some way. there W Il be a new ap-
portioument Many of the millionaire e.
tatcs will crack to pieces on the dissipations
OF grandchildren, and thea dis ] e into the
possession Of the masses who new have an
insufiiciency
What you say. will become of the erpen-
sive and elaborate buildings now devoted to
debasing anussments. They VIII become
sch )ols, art galleries, museums. gymuasiums.
and churches. The world is already getting !
with many Of these anu eneuts. !
and no wonder What an Importation Of |
unclean theatrical stuff we have within the |
last few years had brought to our shoresi |
And professors of religion patronizing such |
thinssi Having sold out to the devil, why |
don't You deliver the goods and go over to !
him publicly, body, mind. and soul. and |
withdraw your name from Christian |
and say: 'Krow all the world by /
'hese present that am patron Of unclean-
ness and child Of hell Sworn to be the |
Lords. you are perjurers
But at last the tide has turned and the de- /
pisers Of purity overdid the n'at:e-. A for
ign actress Of base morals arrived intending |
o make the tour OF the States, but the re-
raining decency Of our cities rose up and
,aucelad the Contracts and firova her Ia II